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See Greyhound.

Somewhat gray.

The common wild gray goose (Anser anser) of Europe, believed to be the wild form of the domestic goose. See Illust. of Goose.

ms, and is valued as a game fish. And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. Tennyson.

The quality of being gray.

A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

onsidered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.

Rays (chiefly cathode rays) developed by the electric discharge in Hittorf tubes.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken. -- n.

Rays emanating from the outer surface of a plate composed of any material permeable by cathode rays, as aluminium, which forms a portion of a wall of a vacuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So ca…

A muræna.

A glucoside found in the flowers of a plant (Murraya exotica) of South Asia, and extracted as a white amorphous slightly bitter substance.

The osprey. [Obs.] Holland.

See Orphrey. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

The fishhawk.

To exceed in braying.

To exceed or excel in prayer.

To spread out in array. [Obs.] And now they outray to your fleet. Chapman.